Wings So Wicked

Golden City, Book 1

By: Emily Blackwood

Narrated by: Laura Horowitz, Lucas Dixon

Fourth Wing meets The Serpent and the Wings of Night in this dark, alluring fantasy romance filled with tension, combat, magic, fae, fallen angels, vampyres, and two stubborn rivals.

A wolf and his huntress. An academy designed to break them.

Huntyr has fought for survival her entire life. Raised under Lord, the master of assassins in Midgrave, she has spent over twenty years learning to kill the blood-hungry, depraved vampyres that lurk in the darkness. Huntyr is the most lethal fae in the kingdom, which is why Lord chooses her to complete the next mission.

Huntyr must survive Moira Seminary and make it into the Golden City—the mysterious elite society of the few remaining angels and the magic fae who live in luxury with no crime, no poverty, and certainly no vampyres.

Only when she arrives at the academy, she's forced to room with Wolf—the terrifying fallen angel who happens to know her assassin identity.

Determined to keep her head down in Moira, Huntyr tries her best to ignore Wolf. Over time, though, he not only becomes the only person she can lean on but also the one who might keep her alive through the life-threatening tests to get into the Golden City.

Huntyr will do anything to please the assassin master, but Wolf begins to test her in ways she never imagined. Is she strong enough to stick to the mission? Or will new truths—and alliances—put everything at risk?

Wings So Wicked is a new adult fantasy romance with fae, vampyres, fallen angels, magical trials, fierce main characters, dark themes, forced proximity, "who did this to you" moments, possessive males, rivals to lovers, elite societies, hidden identities, and so much more. Listeners who love academy settings, main characters riddled with darkness, angst, and slow-burn romances will devour this story!

©2023 Emily Blackwood (P)2024 Podium Audio

Dark, Beautiful, Well Done

I absolutely devoured Wings So Wicked. It was one of those books/audios that I couldn't put down. The world-building was incredible, and the characters were so well-developed. I found myself completely invested in Huntyr and Wolf's journey. The ending had me feeling a whole range of emotions. It was bittersweet, hopeful, and just plain beautiful. I know I will still be thinking about it days later. If you're a fan of fantasy with a side of romance, this book is a must-read. It gave me reminders from Fourth Wing and Throne of Glass and it will be a book I recommend to everyone I know.

Really Enjoyed!

Really enjoyed this audio book and story. Wished I could have gotten the second book on Audible but this was a really good way to get started on the duology.

great book

I loved this audiobook. Last chapter the voice actor changes and I hated it. It was so bad.

The gasp I gusped

The ending made me wanna THROW it across the room and DNF the second book before ever even touching it out of spite. So you know it was good.

All the breathy, heart wrenching, witty, peak entertainment you could ask for balled up into this one folks. I will be back for more. Whether or not I regret that decision remains to be seen.

I love the story but the FMC way too whiny

The storyline was fantastic, but if you’re gonna have a bad ass FMC, can she stop being so whiny and yelling at the MMC throughout the entire book?

loved it!

this book had me sucked in from the start to finish! it's a must read!!!!

Great potential

I’m usually not very picky about writing and such but something about the dialogue in this book seems off. The whole story is just random pieces of other books put together and feels rushed. Also she’s supposedly such a strong FMC but she’s constantly weak and needing to lean on others the entire book. It just doesn’t make sense.

Should have been a duet narration

I listened to this as an audio book. I would have enjoyed it more if it wasn’t just a single narrator till the last chapter. Had it been a duet I would think this could have been great. Instead it was okay. The story was interesting enough. Book 2 seems to switch off MC’s so I’ll give it a listen to finish out this series.

Done in one sitting!

Yes yes yes OH MY GOSH YES!

the narraration, the story, the plot twist 😭🙌 OH MY GOSH!

it started off good

There were so much potential that this book could have delivered and it was starting to build it up and then it just completely dropped it. This book was a mixture of all popular books ranging from fourth wing and divergent, to all SJM books. The plot was great, it was the way it was written that did me in. Scenes weren't being painted properly and the writing seems so rushed at the end like the author just wanted to finish the book and be done with it. The characters were great. The author really had something. it could have been sooooo good but once the trials happened....Hunter was annoying me, she was supposed to be stronger but how she is written made her extremely weak and reliant on others. Wolf was great.